Added exit flag

cmd/constant.go

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ var writeInplace = false
 var writeScript = ""
 var sourceYamlFile = ""
 var outputToJSON = false
+var exitStatus = false
 var prettyPrint = false
 var explodeAnchors = false
 var colorsEnabled = false

cmd/read.go

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ yq r -- things.yaml '--key-starting-with-dashes.blah'
 	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&unwrapScalar, "unwrapScalar", "", true, "unwrap scalar, print the value with no quotes, colors or comments")
 	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&stripComments, "stripComments", "", false, "print yaml without any comments")
 	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&explodeAnchors, "explodeAnchors", "X", false, "explode anchors")
+	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&exitStatus, "exitStatus", "e", false, "set exit status if no matches are found")
 	return cmdRead
 }
 
@@ -50,6 +51,11 @@ func readProperty(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 
 	matchingNodes, errorReadingStream := readYamlFile(args[0], path, updateAll, docIndexInt)
 
+	if exitStatus {
+		cmd.SilenceUsage = true
+		return errors.New("No matches found")
+	}
+
 	if errorReadingStream != nil {
 		return errorReadingStream
 	}

cmd/read_test.go

@@ -882,6 +882,24 @@ b:
 	test.AssertResult(t, expectedOutput, result.Output)
 }
 
+func TestReadNotFoundWithExitStatus(t *testing.T) {
+	cmd := getRootCommand()
+	result := test.RunCmd(cmd, "read ../examples/sample.yaml adsf -e")
+	if result.Error == nil {
+		t.Error("Expected command to fail")
+	}
+	expectedOutput := `No matches found`
+	test.AssertResult(t, expectedOutput, result.Error.Error())
+}
+
+func TestReadNotFoundWithoutExitStatus(t *testing.T) {
+	cmd := getRootCommand()
+	result := test.RunCmd(cmd, "read ../examples/sample.yaml adsf")
+	if result.Error != nil {
+		t.Error("Expected command to succeed!")
+	}
+}
+
 func TestReadPrettyPrintWithIndentCmd(t *testing.T) {
 	cmd := getRootCommand()
 	result := test.RunCmd(cmd, "read -P -I4 ../examples/sample.json")